Idioms : Processing, Structure, and Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780805810387 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 360 str.

Cacciari; Cristina Cacciari; Patrizia Tabossi

Opis

The multifaceted nature of idioms has among its consequences, the fact that it is virtually impossible for any single approach or methodology to fully capture it. Moreover, current knowledge of these expressions is such that the picture emerging from their study is still rather fragmentary. Both aspects are reflected in this book, and while linguistic, computational, psychological and neuropsychological approaches are all present -- providing an interdisciplinary, cognitive science perspective in the study of idioms -- no attempt has been made to force the different trends of research into a coherent framework. br br Filling a gap in the study of figurative language where idioms are rarely treated as an autonomous topic, this is the only book available that presents psychological studies on idiomatic expressions -- a frequent phenomenon of everyday language. Accurate and up-to-date information featuring state-of-the-art research is provided by cognitive psychologists, linguists, and artificial intelligence researchers. Utilizing the point of view of the disciplines that investigate natural language, the book explains how idiomatic expressions are acquired, understood, and used. br

Recenzje

"...does an excellent job of presenting the state of the art in the study of idioms. Its strength is in raising important issues, which is precisely what one would want from a book that should serve to motivate the future investigation of idioms."
—American Journal of Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: P.N. Johnson-Laird, Foreword. Preface. Part I:Idiom Interpretation and the Literal Figurative Distinction. S. Glucksberg, Idiom Meanings and Allusional Content. C. Cacciari, The Place of Idioms in a Literal and Metaphorical World. R.W. Gibbs, Why Idioms Are Not Dead Metaphors. G.B. Flores d'Arcais, The Comprehension and Semantic Interpretation of Idioms. Part II:Acquisition and Processing of Idioms. M.C. Levorato, The Acquisition of Idioms and the Development of Figurative Competence. T. Botelho da Silva, A. Cutler, Ill-Formedness and Transformability in Portuguese Idioms. P. Tabossi, F. Zardon, The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning in Spoken Language Comprehension. L. Colombo, The Comprehension of Ambiguous Idioms in Context. R.R. Peterson, C. Burgess, Syntactic and Semantic Processing During Idiom Comprehension: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Dissociations. Part III:Meaning and Structure. O. Stock, J. Slack, A. Ortony, Building Castles in the Air: Some Computational and Theoretical Issues in Idiom Comprehension. S.G. Pulman, The Recognition and Interpretation of Idioms. C. Fellbaum, The Determiner in English Idioms. A. Makkai, Idiomaticity as a Reaction to L'Arbitraire du Signe in the Universal Process of Semeio-Genesis.

O autorze

Cristina Cacciari, Patrizia Tabossi